Opportunity.
Opportunity is the real reason for the TikTok ban. Many say
and partially rightfully so that is competition. The American social media
companies want to get rid of TikTok because it is competition to them and
eating into their market share, profits etc, however, if you sit back and think
about it, Tik Tok gives millions of people opportunity that people do not have
in other areas.
The plutocrats or oligarchs, or whatever you want to call
them, want to control the world, yet if there are avenues for millions of
people to have an opportunity that is a threat to them. If people can be
successful in areas they cannot control this is a threat to them. And as we
know, the rulers do not like threats to their rule. So what we are really
looking for to replace TikTok is not just another medium, but one that opens up
doors for people to be successful on their own. And so much so that it
threatens the elite because opportunity is what keeps us thriving as a
populace.
So on way too many occasions I go out and make comments,
snarky comments etc on other social media platforms or on the comment boards to
news articles and so on. What I am finding is the infamous “community guidelines”
or just “X” in general are out of hand. I cannot prove my “X” example, but I
have been putting critical comments on “X” about Musk and Trump and then if I
go back to check what I have put on there, those what use to be tweets have
disappeared. Unfortunately I have not taken screen shots of the original post, but
I am seeing a few of my posts not show up under a search for me. I don’t
normally search for my stuff, yet I had posted a critical comment and then I
went back to edit it or make a comment to it and couldn’t find it so it got me
checking other posts. I feel some are missing.
Second the “community guidelines” are seriously out of hand.
I entered this comment on a story:
We need new parties or independents to gain control of
the House just to reset the power structure and give more power back to the
people.
I copied the comment verbatim onto a word document when I got back the message it violated the community
guidelines for the site. Seriously I tried it twice and received the same
message about violated the policy. How on God’s green earth does the above
comment violate anything. There are no derogatory or vulgar words, no hate speech,
no what?????? Please read this again and let me know if I am missing something.
Otherwise this is serious censorship at a whole new level. I understand a site
can create their own rules, but this???
And with Trump’s second term upon us, do we fear the worst?
Or is it all bluster and nothing gets done. The acquiescence of Republicans
towards him is more than pathetic, but what really burns me is his cabinet.
Only loyalists to a fault and with many of them very wealthy it is beyond the
pale that this government represents anything other than a grab of greed and
power for a very select few individuals. And add in Trump and the rest of the
Republicans have bad public policy as a goal, what is the average Joe and Jane
supposed to do. And as David Bowie once sang, but even more relevant today:
scary monsters, super creeps, keep me running, running scared.
Hopefully I am wrong, but I am not too thrilled about the
next four years, especially since the clueless Democrats still haven’t figured
out what hit them.
